Attention Quote by Vijay Iyer

What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's…

— Vijay Iyer

I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who resist naming,…

— Vijay Iyer

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.

— Vijay Iyer

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

— Vijay Iyer

I find myself skeptical of music that forces you to have a certain experience, emotional reaction, or specific constructive arc of experience. But performers…

— Vijay Iyer

In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security wards. It…

— Vijay Iyer

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

— Vijay Iyer

I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more…

— Vijay Iyer

Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of tempo because…

— Vijay Iyer

The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that aside; it's…

— Vijay Iyer

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we…

— Vijay Iyer

I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like…

— Vijay Iyer